LayoutPointer: A Spatial-Context Adaptive Pointer Network for Visual Information Extraction (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing models inadequately utilize spatial information of entities, causing incorrectly linking spatially distant entities. |
| Approach: | They propose a Spatial-Context Adaptive Pointer Network to restore semantic order among entities . they propose XFUND-based tail-to-head pointer to restore the semantic order . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in F1 scores for RE tasks. |
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